Problem:
htop updates sorting every second with makes the view quiet unstable when many processes have similar computation.
Suggestion:
Allow sorting to be more lazy, by using an exponential moving average. Its like the windowed average for "load avg", but is way easier to calculate. Therefore processes that have a high consumption over a longer period will be placed on top and processes that really spike will also be on top.
But this feature would not be suitable in every use case so it would have to be disabled by default and could be enabled via the options.
If you consider this idea, i can get much more detailed.
benyanke
commented
6 years ago
Problem: htop updates sorting every second with makes the view quiet unstable when many processes have similar computation.
Suggestion: Allow sorting to be more lazy, by using an exponential moving average. Its like the windowed average for "load avg", but is way easier to calculate. Therefore processes that have a high consumption over a longer period will be placed on top and processes that really spike will also be on top.
But this feature would not be suitable in every use case so it would have to be disabled by default and could be enabled via the options.
If you consider this idea, i can get much more detailed.